NBA Live 09 Demo Released, Impressions Here 360 & PS3

[aholbert32]

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Wow. This game is about a year away from being really good. I really like the demo alot. I think the playcalling is great and way more realistic and better than 2k8. The post game and defense is great and I love the fact that if you gamble on D you can end up getting burned. The atmosphere, sound and commentary are the best I;ve heard in a basketball game.

The only issues are that the controls and animations are kind of stiff and the cpu makes too many shots so far.

[DakkoN]

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Wow. This game is about a year away from being really good. I really like the demo alot. I think the playcalling is great and way more realistic and better than 2k8. The post game and defense is great and I love the fact that if you gamble on D you can end up getting burned. The atmosphere, sound and commentary are the best I;ve heard in a basketball game.

The only issues are that the controls and animations are kind of stiff and the cpu makes too many shots so far.

I agree with you man, I haven't said anything about it, but I really do like the playcalling. I love how there are multiple variations of each play, sometimes 5 or 6 different variations. It's simple without cluttering up the floor with play art.

[Bornindamecca]

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BUT it seems to be similiar to what it was before and people who have been playing live will have a less difficult time adjusting to it.

I can agree with that. Since 05, I really couldn't understand anyone who played Live at all. It was arcadey, broken, stupid...ya'll know. All that bad stuff.

Now, I can definitely say that I understand people who like it. I can understand the "Live crowd" for 09. If I got this game for free, I'd probably try to do a few things in it, because now it feels like basketball, and I really needed that before I took my boot off of Live's neck.

March Madness is still in the doghouse though.

[jtdribbles25]

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I agree with aholbert mostly. I still don't understand the raving about the commentary on this game except for the fact that it's very familiar. It's still repetitive, and they say things from years past, like every other game.

[jtdribbles25]

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the best thing about this demo, is that it will allow me to not rush out and buy it. And im not mad, or bashing. But I usually have to fight myself not to impulse buy it. I allready know Im getting 2k and will buy this once it becomes available on the cheap....

[bigeastbumrush]

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I agree with aholbert mostly. I still don't understand the raving about the commentary on this game except for the fact that it's very familiar. It's still repetitive, and they say things from years past, like every other game.

I dunno.

I was posting up with KG and turned inside for a jumper.

Steve Kerr immediately said during the replay, something to the effect of 'KG has learned to turn inside over the years as to avoid shotblocks' or something to that effect. Don't remember his exact words, but I was like

[Pared]

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Wow. This game is about a year away from being really good. I really like the demo alot. I think the playcalling is great and way more realistic and better than 2k8. The post game and defense is great and I love the fact that if you gamble on D you can end up getting burned. The atmosphere, sound and commentary are the best I;ve heard in a basketball game.

The only issues are that the controls and animations are kind of stiff and the cpu makes too many shots so far.

Glad you like it.

There's only one thing I don't like about the play-calling. I'm hoping it can get addressed for NCAA.

[Boreez2000]

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I have a technical problem and apparently i'm the only person experiencing it.
The demo has frozen on me 4 or 5 times now. A couple of times in the gym and also during the actual game and loading.
Not sure what the problem is, no other game does this.
Anybody else having the same thing happen?

[DakkoN]

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I have a technical problem and apparently i'm the only person experiencing it.
The demo has frozen on me 4 or 5 times now. A couple of times in the gym and also during the actual game and loading.
Not sure what the problem is, no other game does this.
Anybody else having the same thing happen?

What kind of freezing? Like purple squares on the screen? If so, that's probably an early sign of RROD. That's what mine started doing just before it RROD'd, it's a sign of video card failure.

[Boreez2000]

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What kind of freezing? Like purple squares on the screen? If so, that's probably an early sign of RROD. That's what mine started doing just before it RROD'd, it's a sign of video card failure.

No, no purple squares. It either keeps the last screen frozen or it goes to black.
The whole Xbox freezes though, i can't go back to the dashboard or anything. I had a similar thing happen in Madden, looks like only EA games are giving me trouble.

[SageInfinite]

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I have a technical problem and apparently i'm the only person experiencing it.
The demo has frozen on me 4 or 5 times now. A couple of times in the gym and also during the actual game and loading.
Not sure what the problem is, no other game does this.
Anybody else having the same thing happen?

Mine froze after the 1st quarter. At first it was just showing the players standing around during the timeout. I could pause the game but it wouldn't advance to the 2nd quarter. After that it froze completely.

[rockchisler]

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delete and redownload..

[jtdribbles25]

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I dunno.

I was posting up with KG and turned inside for a jumper.

Steve Kerr immediately said during the replay, something to the effect of 'KG has learned to turn inside over the years as to avoid shotblocks' or something to that effect. Don't remember his exact words, but I was like

no doubt. They say some insightful things. but over the course of the season they will say the same things over and over like any other game with programmed commentary. I was playing and he said that, followed by a nice 15 seconds of silence by either guy. Im not complaining or anything, Im just sayin people put hiiiigh praise on the commentary as if it's on that 365 dna. Now that would be cool. Update the commentary to go along with the dna, so that they can comment on the game I played yesterday. hehe.

[Boreez2000]

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delete and redownload..

Damn, well that's a pain in the ***.
I didn't know that sort of crap would be necessary over Xbox Live. Such is life i guess.
Thanks

[funkysven]

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here is another video guys. the way the guys played it isnt the best but its just so people can get the idea of what the game is like. the kobe shot at 6:08 is pretty cool. never seen that before, but i am new to basketball games so may have been in last year. video quality isnt the best but still good to gauge where it is at for us ps3 users who dont have the demo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI1Lz1waJEo